All of a sudden I stopped seeing e-mail on my sidebar from Google. The mail comes from an exchange server so I didn't think there was anything on my machine that was causing the problem.I tried to remove the gadget and ad it back in. I rebooted my computer. Closed and opened outlook all to no avail. I was getting ready to remove the google desktop when I found this post:http://desktop.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=30817&topic=1586

I followed these directions and my sidebar works again! I must have un-checked that at some point when I was poking around Outlook. I was trying to reduce the load on the memory and Outlook seemed to be a bit of a hog so I started flipping switches! Oops!